Public SourceMage Discussion List

["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Hmmm...I hadn't thought of that.  I'll look into reverting the version and
seeing if that fixes the symbols problems.  Anyone else care to test this
as well?

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

Lyon Lemmens said:
> On Monday 09 September 2002 06:43, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> Jeremy Kolb said:
>> > ok, just sorcery updated and now when i cast alsa-driver i get a
>> whole bunch of undefined symbols in my
>> > /lib/modules/2.4.19-preempt-3/kernel/sound/*.o files. then i go to
>> cast alsa-lib and it decides to uninstall alsa-driver and install
>> > alsa-driver-virmidi instead (which is at rc2 where as the rest of
>> the alsa spells are rc3). then it finally gets to compiling alsa-lib
>> and then dies because halfway through the /usr/src/alsa-lib-0.9-rc3
>> (something like that) directory mysteriously disappears. just posted
>> to bugzilla bug 919.
>> >
>> > Jeremy
>> >
>> > P.S. and what is the difference between alsa-driver and
>> > alsa-driver-virmidi? that should be clearly defined in the DETAILS
>> section, but i see no difference between the two. is this "better"
>> then the plane old alsa-driver?
>>
>> Are your linux modules installed into /lib/modules/2.4.19-preempt-3/,
>> or does the alsa-driver spell create that?  If so, then I believe the
>> problem is that the alsa-driver spell is misreading the kernel version
>> of where to put it (it's set to go to /lib/modules/`installed_version
>> linux-new`/).
>>
>> And I have no idea what the difference is, though I've been asked a
>> few times already.  :)
>>
>> -One of Four
>> a.k.a. sandalle
>
> I have got the same problem with the plain-vanilla linux kernel. After
> alsa  updated I get the undefined symbols.
>
> The problem, IMHO, is that alsa keeps pace with the kernel releases. So
> eg.  after 2.4.19-rc3, you also get a alsa-rc3.
>
> Now, we don't do kernel rc's (I hope), so we probably shold hold off on
> alsa  updates until the next kernel release. I would suggest you revert
> to the  previous alsa version.
>
> --
> Lyon Lemmens
> redlemon AT knoware.nl
> _______________________________________________
> SM-Discuss mailing list
> SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss


-- 
Eric Sandall                      | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                   | http://www.sourcemage.org
http://www.sandall.us/~sandalle   | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org #196285     | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/